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Thursday, June 16, 2005

Kininvie Tasting Notes

After several requests for my "proper" tasting notes for Kininvie I thought I had best find them so here goes.

Kininvie 1990 - Cask Sample 62%- Tasted in September 2003.Nose: Light, floral and sweet, quite spirity straight. With water sweeter and more grassy.Taste: Creamy, grassy perfume, with water creamier, a little bit metallic just at the end.Finish: smooth and short.Comment: Rosebankish in style, a lot easier to drink with water buy not really fully mature.

Score 76/100It was reported that this sample came from the first ever cask that had been filled from Kininvie, I think that it is a decent dram with a lot of potential to be a very easy drinking lowlandish style whisky. However I think that the cask management needs to be improved this was obviously a second or third fill bourbon cask. I have tried about three or four other samples and they all seemed to be from very tired casks!!! Very dissapointing would make you believe that they don't intend bottle this as a single in its own right for some time. Give it a good cask and I think it could be a good dram.

1 comment:

I come from the Leslie's of Kininvie, and so really appreciate hearing about the new whisky with the auld name; I tend to favour Islay malts, but would like to try Kininvie, if it ever makes it's way to market. I wonder if you would be willing to do a follow up tasting, now that it's 2006, and tell us any news you have on this new whiskey?